Have you ever experienced “shadow people”?
I had just gotten home from the hospital last Thursday afternoon from having a heart ablation. I’m pretty sure that whatever aberrations that I saw were due the general anesthesia. They must have given me a high does of anesthesia because I still feel rummy dummy.
Anyway I had gotten home for a while and was cruising the internet when a slight shadow came over my left shoulder. I thought it was my wife (snooping) and as I turned to look in the direction of the shadow there was nothing there.
Two other times I saw a shadow moving around behind me just off my right side. Of course the shadow completely disappeared when I turned to look at it. One other time a low profile shadow appeared and as I turned to look at it quickly disappeared. But I saw enough that it was running on all four legs.
I’ve never take any kind of recreational drugs including alcohol.
I read that some people are tormented by shadow people.
Is there really such a thing as shadow people?
Have you experienced shadow people?
I wonder what they want.
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Nah, that is just paranoid schizophrenia, dude bruv.
I never have but I would guess you were still under the effects of the anesthesia and wouldn’t worry overmuch about it.
I think what you’re describing is akin to the hallucinations that AI is supposed to be creating. Some neurological wires get temporarily crossed and you think you feel or see things.
I wouldn’t worry much unless it becomes frequent and worse even though you aren’t on the anasthesia any longer.
Yes, I have. It was after shoulder surgery, so I was sleeping in a recliner in the living room. After about 3 weeks of this, I began seeing what I thought were people in the room with me – shadows moving. It would happen when I thought I was sleeping but I wondered if maybe I was awake. It kind of freaked me out because I couldn’t figure out if there were really people there with me or not. I would blink hard to clear my vision, but they were still there. They were very fleeting; I couldn’t actually pin one down to see it clearly. I mentioned it to my medication manager and he said it was likely due to the oxycodone I was on. A disconcerting experience for sure!
I hope your ablation was successful and that aside from the shadows I hope you are feeling ok.
I think it’s leftovers from the anesthesia also. Are you sure no one was with you? Could you be coming in and out of sleep?
A more spiritual interpretation: Did you die during surgery? Maybe you came close to the afterworld and the spirits or maybe angels are still near you.
Yeah.
Sometimes they’re eyes, minds, etc “playing tricks on us”. Drugs or other physical/chemical brain effects might tend to increase that.
Sometimes they’re spirits of one sort or another. Spirits are all around us. It’s usually most convenient when we aren’t aware of them. But it’s normal, and usually not a problem.
I have not experienced shadow people.
But I do experience shadow bugs. Dots in my peripheral vision that look like insects.
In fact I have real boxelder bugs infesting my apartment, and I keep a vacuum at hand to remove them.
But often I see specks at the corners of my vision and reach for the Dustbuster and find no target. I think they are reflections in my glasses.
It’s been a few days since you posted this and I wondered if you were still seeing the shadow people?
Thanks for all of the responses.
@chyna No more shadow figures. Must’ve been the residual drugs that they used on me during the heart catheter ablation working on my brain.
The only other drug that I take is a very powerful anti arrhythmia heart drug called Dofetilide. It causes visual disturbances (strobe light for brief periods) but my eye doctor told me that strobe light was happening in my brain not my eyes.
Hopefully I’ve seen the last of the shadow people.
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